Electrify Chicago
An independent tool for viewing City of Chicago building data
According to the
2022 Chicago Climate Action Plan
,
69% of Chicago's emissions come from buildings, making
building emissions our biggest challenge and our biggest opportunity as a city
to tackle climate change. At Electrify Chicago, we showcase building performance using
publicly available data supplemented by community-submitted photographs and building
owners.
Start by looking at Chicago's buildings with the highest greenhouse gas intensity i.e. emissions per square foot. Large, efficient, buildings can perform much better than very inefficient small buildings on this metric.
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Chicago Buildings by Greenhouse Gas Intensity
Note: Data includes large Chicago buildings with data from 2022, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
Note: This data only includes buildings whose emissions are reported
under the
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Ordinance. According to the City “As of 2016,
this list includes all commercial, institutional, and residential buildings larger than
50,000 square feet.” This dataset is also then filtered to only buildings with
reported emissions > 1,000 metric tons CO2 equivalent.
The latest year of data is from 2022, but we update the site regularly when new data is available, and some buildings may have failed to report that year, and only have older data available.
| Property Name / address | Primary Property Type |
Greenhouse Gas Intensity (kg CO2 eq./sqft) |
Total Greenhouse Emissions (metric tons CO2 eq.) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Halsted Pershing
🕰️
815 W. Pershing Rd.
| Other | 5.9 kg/sqft  | 617 tons |
|
5400 N SHERIDAN RD
🕰️
5400 N SHERIDAN RD
| Multifamily Housing | 5.9 kg/sqft | 421 tons |
|
18 E ELM ST
18 E ELM ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 462 tons
Lowest 22%
|
|
The Morgan at Loyola Station
1209 W Arthur Ave
| Multifamily Housing | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 947 tons 
Highest 47%
|
|
Lewis Towers-ID# 174182
🕰️
(Loyola)
820 N Michigan Ave
| Office | 5.9 kg/sqft | 1,285 tons |
|
437 E 60TH ST
🕰️
437 E 60TH ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.9 kg/sqft | 592 tons |
|
Apostolic Church of God
6340 S Dorchester Ave
| Worship Facility | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 1,272 tons
Highest 37%
|
|
55 W CHESTNUT ST
55 W CHESTNUT ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 1,216 tons
Highest 39%
|
|
Mason Elementary -CPS
🕰️
(CPS)
4217 W 18th St
| K-12 School | 5.9 kg/sqft | 1,225 tons |
|
Santa Clara Hall-ID# 161053
🕰️
(Loyola)
1000 - 1008 W Loyola Ave
| Residence Hall/Dormitory | 5.9 kg/sqft | 359 tons |
|
Eugenie Terrace
1730 N Clark St
| Multifamily Housing | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 3,437 tons
Highest 11%
|
|
250 S Wacker Dr
250 S Wacker Dr
| Office | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 1,494 tons
Highest 31%
|
|
61 W 15TH ST
61 W 15TH ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 742 tons
Lowest 43%
|
|
Hanover House
11 21 W GOETHE ST
| Multifamily Housing | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 1,463 tons
Highest 32%
|
|
1360 N ASHLAND AVE
1360 N ASHLAND AVE
| Wholesale Club/Supercenter | 5.9 kg/sqft
Lowest 40%
| 516 tons
Lowest 28%
|
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data